Wiltscha (Poliske)
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| Вільча | |||
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| Oblast : | Kiev Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Poliske district | ||
| Height : | 151 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 3 (2001) | ||
| Postcodes : | 07011 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4592 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 22 ' N , 29 ° 26' E | ||
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Wiltscha ( Ukrainian Вільча ; Russian Вильча ) was an urban-type settlement in Polesia in the northwest of the Ukrainian Kiev Oblast . It was radioactively contaminated in 1986 by the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and officially disbanded in 1999.
Geographical location
The village was located on the border of Belarus and the Oblast Zhytomyr at an altitude of 151 m on the shore of Bereschest ( Бережесть ), a 14 km long left tributary of Usch -Zuflusses Hreslja ( Грезля ). The former settlement is located 15 km north of Poliske , 41 km north of the Krasjatychi district center , 60 km west of Chornobyl and 145 km northwest of the Kiev oblast center . The territorial road T – 10–35 and the railway line Ovrutsch - Chernihiv runs through the village . The settlement was on the Chernobyl exclusion zone , on the Belarusian side of the border there is the Polish State Radio-Ecological Protection Area .
history
In the village, which was founded in the 19th century as Oleksiyivka ( Олексіївка ), construction of the Ovrutsch – Chernihiv railway began in early May 1927. In 1928 a train station and 2 dormitories for the workers of the train station were built and a sawmill, a mill and a forge were built in the village. During the German-Soviet War , the station and the railway line were destroyed and numerous houses burned down. After the settlement area was liberated by the Red Army on November 6, 1943 , the destruction was quickly repaired. By a decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR on May 15, 1958, the Vilscha railway station and the village of Oleksiyivka were combined to form the Vilscha urban-type settlement and the Vilscha Settlement Council was formed. In 1968 there were 2500 people in Wiltscha.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 radioactively contaminated Vilcha, but it was not until ten years after the nuclear disaster that the village, as well as the neighboring, former district center of Poliske, was cleared. From October 1992 on, around 3,000 residents, including their movable property, gradually moved to a newly founded settlement of the same name in the north of Kharkiv Oblast . Wiltscha was officially dissolved in 1999. Today the village is a destination for disaster tourism in Ukraine .
Fire station in town
Ovrutsch – Chernihiv railway line
Friendship monument at the Ukrainian border checkpoint towards Belarus
Web links
- Local history of Vilcha in the history of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c smt. Vilcha on chernobyladventure.com from October 12, 2018; accessed on April 26, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b History of the Village of Vilcha in Poliske Raion in Kiev Oblast ; accessed on April 26, 2020 (Ukrainian)